Minnie Mahon

Wilhelmina "Minnie" Mahon was an IRA agent during the Irish War of Independence.

Biography
Wilhelmina Mahon was born in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Arthur Mahon and his wife Peggy; she was one of four children, and she was the older sister of Peter Mahon. Her uncle Jimmy Mahon found her work at a laundromat in 1916 while her father was serving in the British Army during World War I, and she worked at several jobs to provide for her working-class family. She lost her brother during the Easter Rising, her father during World War I, and her mother in the late 1910s, and she and her siblings came under their uncle's care. During the Irish War of Independence, Minnie sold apples on the street and used her job to smuggle guns to IRA members who came to her stall; she fell in love with IRA member Joey Bradley and began a romantic relationship with him. However, in 1921, her anger at the deaths of her brother and several friends at the hands of the British while fighting for the Irish Republic led to her opposing the Anglo-Irish Treaty unlike her pro-Treaty boyfriend. She was able to convince Bradley to switch sides, despite her uncle Jimmy being Michael Collins' intelligence chief.